mmodel@mirror.UUCP (10/03/85)
I have documents I prepared with MS Word in which I switch fonts
frequently (e.g., between Geneva and Monaco). I created the files
before I had access to a LaserWriter. I now have access to a Laserwriter.
I understand that if I use the font substitution option for printing,
I will get inappropriate spacing. In order to take advantage of the
Laserwriter, I want to change all occurrences of Geneva in the files
to Helvetica, Monaco to Courier, etc.
Ideally, I want to be able to replace arbitrary triples of
face, size, and style with other triples. For now I would
settle for being able to do global face substitution. Questions:
(1) Does anyone know of a program that can do this?
(2) Would someone like to write one? (I'm willing to pay.)
(3) How are font changes are represented in MS Word? Initial
inspection with FEdit showed perplexingly dramatic differences in
a two-line file (each in a different font) when I changed the
font of one of the lines.
(4) How about font representation in MacWrite?
(5) Is there a way to fool Word into thinking that Helvetica is
actually Geneva?
(6) Why hasn't such a utility appeared yet? For instance, suppose I
decide that all my uses of Monaco 12 bold for program text should
really not be bold (as happened when I prepared a large document
for a course, printing drafts in standard mode than found that
Monaco looks bold in regular style when printed in high-quality).
I should be able to do a global replacement of Monaco 12 bold
with Monaco 12 regular, or whatever.
--- Mitchell L Model